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Image Cytometry Standard

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Summary

Name
Image Cytometry Standard
Version
1
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/577
Format type
Image (Raster)
Description
The Image Cytometry Standard (ICS) is a digital multidimensional image file format used in life sciences microscopy. It stores not only the image data, but also the microscopic parameters describing the optics during the acquisition. Version 1 of the format holds just the metadata and a pointer to a corresponding .ids file which contains the pixel data.
File extensions
ics
Submitted by
Tessella / Tessella

Relationships

Is previous version of

Internal signatures

Image Cytometry Standard 1.0

Description
BOF: <horizontal tab><line feed>ics_version.1.0
Provenance
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cyto.990110502/pdf http://libics.sourceforge.net/Ics_Header.html

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
090A6963735F76657273696F6E09312E30
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • V70

    Release date
    28 August 2013

    • Added format

      Image Cytometry Standard 1: Outline Entry submitted by Tessella.

    • Added signature

      Image Cytometry Standard 1: Signature provided by Tessella.